About The Position

OleOle is building a global football super app combining social networking, messaging, live scores, short-form video, gambling, commerce, payments, translation, and mini programs into a single platform focused entirely on football fans worldwide. We are looking for a senior Rust engineer to help architect and build the short-form video infrastructure powering the platform. This role is focused specifically on TikTok-style video feeds, video ingestion pipelines, transcoding systems, media delivery infrastructure, playback optimization, recommendation and engagement systems, upload systems, scalable video APIs, CDN and streaming optimization, and real-time media infrastructure. This is not a generic backend role. The platform combines elements of TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, live football content, social engagement, and real-time translated communication inside a football-focused ecosystem.

Requirements

  • Strong Rust backend engineering experience
  • Experience designing scalable distributed systems
  • Experience building high-scale APIs
  • Experience with media or video infrastructure
  • Experience working with real-time systems
  • Strong understanding of concurrency and low-latency infrastructure
  • Experience building scalable content delivery systems
  • Experience optimizing backend performance for high-volume traffic
  • Strong understanding of scalable media pipelines

Nice To Haves

  • Video ingestion pipelines
  • Video transcoding systems
  • Streaming infrastructure
  • CDN optimization
  • Short-form video feed systems
  • Recommendation or engagement systems
  • Real-time media delivery
  • Upload and processing pipelines
  • Distributed event systems
  • Large-scale consumer platforms
  • High-concurrency backend systems
  • FFmpeg or media processing pipelines
  • WebRTC or streaming technologies
  • Scalable caching systems
  • Distributed databases
  • Pub/sub infrastructure
  • Cloud-native infrastructure
  • Globally distributed systems
  • Recommendation systems or engagement ranking
  • AI-assisted moderation or translation systems
  • Working in startup environments
  • Interest in sports, football, or fan engagement products
  • Strong product thinking
  • Ability to work independently in an early-stage startup environment
  • Comfortable helping shape architecture from the ground up
  • Comfortable operating with evolving product requirements
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Interest in ambitious long-term platform design
  • Creative problem solver who can courageously propose and support new ideas to our organization.
  • Ability to adapt. An ideal candidate will welcome the opportunity to solve a broad range of problems using a wide array of technologies.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities and general growing pains of an early-stage technology company
  • An exceptional entrepreneurial judgment that fosters independence over micro-management
  • Understanding of football and international sports a huge plus

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable short-form video infrastructure
  • Architect video ingestion and transcoding pipelines
  • Optimize playback performance across mobile and web
  • Design scalable media delivery systems
  • Build APIs supporting high-volume video engagement
  • Help architect recommendation and engagement systems
  • Work on low-latency media infrastructure
  • Collaborate with frontend, mobile, AI, and platform engineers
  • Help optimize infrastructure for global fan engagement at scale

Benefits

  • Equity and token participation may be available for the right candidate.
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